Psalms 102:11
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
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Psalms 102:11
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
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1 Samuel 20:3
David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”
Job 7:7
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
Job 9:26
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
Psalms 90:11
Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
Psalms 90:12
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
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2 Samuel 14:14
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Job 16:22
For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.
Psalms 42:1
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
Psalms 42:2
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 42:4
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
Psalms 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
Psalms 77:3
I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalms 77:4
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
Psalms 77:7
“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
Psalms 77:8
Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
Psalms 77:9
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.
Psalms 89:45
You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms 89:46
How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
Isaiah 38:13
I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
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2 Kings 19:26
Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
Isaiah 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
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2 Kings 20:10
Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”
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Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 13:28
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Psalms 39:11
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
Isaiah 50:9
Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
Hosea 5:12
Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
2 Corinthians 5:4
For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
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Job 7:2
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
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Job 19:10
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 37:36
But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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Job 19:20
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
Job 33:21
His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
Psalms 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
Psalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
Psalms 103:4
who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
Psalms 119:83
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
Lamentations 4:8
Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.
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Psalms 77:1
My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.
Psalms 102:1
Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
Psalms 119:23
Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Lamentations 5:21
Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
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Isaiah 38:8
Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.” ’ ” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.
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2 Chronicles 7:20
then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Psalms 37:18
Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.
Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Isaiah 66:10
“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
Jeremiah 51:50
You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
Jeremiah 51:51
“We are confounded because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
Lamentations 1:16
“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:18
Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.
Lamentations 3:48
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:51
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Daniel 9:3
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Daniel 10:3
I ate no pleasant food. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Luke 19:41
When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
Revelation 11:3
I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
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Daniel 10:2
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
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Psalms 102:26
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
Psalms 102:27
But you are the same. Your years will have no end.
Song of Solomon 2:17
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
Matthew 6:30
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
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